Freemasonry - A Secret Society - A Society with Secrets - The Brotherhood - The Lodge - The Craft
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All the penalties for all the degrees have been listed below.
The Brotherhood take The Craft very seriously, should you being a mason reveal any of the secrets of The Lodge or not obey your oaths or obligations, as a part of your oaths the masonic penalties you swear to on the Bible or your holy book are as follows (purely symbolic of course) :-
Entered Apprentice (1°) (First Degree) (1st Degree)
"..to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours.."
Fellow Craft (2°) (Second Degree) (2nd Degree)
"..to have my left breast torn open, my heart and vitals taken from thence, thrown over my left shoulder, and carried to the valley of Jehosaphat, there to become a prey to the wild beasts of the field, and vultures of the air.."
Master Mason (3°) (Third Degree) (3rd Degree)
"..to have my body severed in two in the midst, and divided to the North and South, my bowels burnt to ashes in the center, and the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven, that there might not the least tract or trace of remembrance ramain amoung men or Masons of a vile and perjured a wretch as I should be.."
Mark Master's Degree
"..to have my right ear smote off, that I may forever be unable to hear the word, and my right hand chopped off, as the penalty as an imposter.."
Past Master
"..to have my tongue split from tip to root, that I might for ever thereafter be unable to pronounce the word.."
Most Excellent Master
"..to have my breast torn open, and my heart and vitals taken from thence, and exposed to rot on the dunghill.."
Royal Arch Degree
".. to have my skull smote off, and my brains exposed to the scorching rays of the meridian sun.."
Royal Master
on the Royal Arch oath
Select Master
"..to have my hands chopped off to the stumps, my eyes plucked out from the sockets, my body quartered, and then thrown among the rubbish of the Temple.."
Super Excellent Master
"..to have my thumbs cut off, my eyes put out, my body bound in fetters of brass, and conveyed captive to a strange land.."
Secret Monitor
"..to have my heart thrust through with the arrow of an enemy, and to be without friends in the hour of trouble.."
Heroine of Jericho
"..to have my head struck off and carried to the highest mountain.."
Knights of Three Kings
"..no less penalty than crucifixion, and to die a lingering death upon the cross.."
Knights of the Red Cross
"..no less penalty than having my house torn down, the timbers thereof set up, and I hanged thereon; and when the last trump shall blow, that I be forever excluded from the society of all true and courteous Knights.."
Order of Knights Templars
"..to have my head struck off and placed on the highest spire in christendom.."
Knights of the Christian Mark
"..and if I perform it not, LET ME BE ANATHEMA MARANATHA! ANATHEMA MARANATHA!" (Accursed at the coming of the Lord.)
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
"..let me become inanimatus.." (Dead)
Order of the Cross
"..I become the silent and mute subject of the displeasure of the Illustrious Order, and have their power and wrath turned on my head, to my destruction and dishonor, which like the nail of Jael, may be the sure end of an unworthy wretch, by piercing my temples with a true sense of my ingratitude - and for a breach of silence in case of such an unhappy event, that I shall die the infamous death of a traitor, by having a spear, or other sharp weapon, like as my Lord, thrust in my left side.."
Ineffable Degrees or The Lodge of Perfection
Secret Master
Penalty in all former degrees
Perfect Master
Penalty in all former degrees and
"..being smitten to the earth with a setting maul.."
Intimate Secretary
"..my body dissected, my bowels and vitals taken out, my heart cut to pieces, and the whole thrown out to be devoured by the beasts of the field.."
Provost and Judge
"..punished as an unjust judge, by having my nose cut off.."
Intendant of the Building
"..eyes put out, body cut in two, and bowels taken out.."
Masters Elect of Nine
"..I consent to be struck with the dreadful poinard of vengeance now presented to me, and to have my head cut off, and stuck on the highest pole, or pinnacle, in the eastern part of the world, as a monument of my villany! Amen! Amen! amen! amen!.."
Masters Elect of Fifteen
"..body opened perpendicularly and horizontally, and exposed to the air for eight hours, that the flies may prey on my entrails, that my head be cut off and impaled on the highest pinnacle in the world.."
Sublime Knights Elected
"..to have my hands nailed to my breast.."
Grand Master Architect
"..to have my hand cut in twain.."
Knight of the Ninth Arch
"..that my body be exposed to the beasts of the forest as a prey.."
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason
"..my body cut open, and the bowels torn out and given to the vultures for food.."
Historical and Philosophical Degrees
Prince of Jerusalem
"..all this I promise and swear, under the penalty of being stripped naked, and having my heart pierced with a poinard.."
Knights of the East and West
"..the severe wrath of the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth.."
Sovereign Prince of Rose-Croix De Harodim and Knight of the Eagle and Pelican
"..of being forever deprived of the true word, to be perpetually in darkness, my blood continually running from my body, to suffer without intermission the most curel remorse of soul ; that the bitterest gall, mixed with vinegar, be my constant drink ; the sharpest thorns for my pillow ; and that the death of the cross may complete my punishment.."
Grand Pontiff
Admitted without ceremony
Grand Master of All Symbolic Lodges
"..forever despised and dishonored by the Craft in general.."
Chief of the Tabernacle
".. I consent that the earth should be opened before my eyes, and that I should be engulfed (swallows up) even to my neck, and thus miserably perish. To the fulfilment of which, may God preserve me in my senses.."
Prince of the Tabernacle
"..I consent to be stoned to death, as St Stephen was, and that my body be left to rot above ground, deprived of burial.."
Knight of the Brazen Serpent
"..I freely consent to have my heart eaten by the most venomous of serpents, and thus perish most miserably.."
Prince of Mercy, or Scottish Trinitarian Degree
"..I consent to be condemned, cast out, and despised by the whole universe.."
Sovereign Commander of the Temple
"..the severe wrath of Almighty God inflicted in me.."
Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept
"..to seize me, and thrust my tongue through with a red hot iron; to pluck out both my eyes, and to deprive me of smelling and hearing; to cut off both my hands, and to expose me in that condition in the field, to be devoured by the voracious animas; and if none can be found, I wish the lightning of Heaven might execute on me the same vengeance.."
Knight of Kadosh
"..all penalties of my former obligations may be inflicted on me.."
Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
"..all the different penalites of my former obligations.."
Sovereign Grand Inspector General (33°) (Thirty Third Degree) (33rd Degree)
"..to have my tongue torn out by the roots.."
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